Well said, John.
Respectfully,
Henry Seiden
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On 19 Nov 2024, at 9:39, John Cooper wrote:
Charlie Clark wrote (at 5:35 AM on Tuesday, November 19, 2024):
I think you've mischaracterised what Benny has done.…You must
realise, that as a commercial product, he has to be sure that an
official release really is rock solid; I can think of quite a few
large software companies that could learn from this.
Eager as we understandably are to shield the author of a beloved
software product from even the gentlest implied criticism, I think
everyone can agree that Benny’s versioning strategy is eccentric, to
say the least. The MailMate 1.14 I’m using now (let’s leave the
build numbers to the geeks) has undergone countless major improvements
and rewrites since the release of MailMate 1.0 over 13 (!) years ago.
There is no reason to wait for well over a decade of continual
improvement to upgrade a version number by a single digit, even if the
UI has not been completely rethought. (I would argue that there have
been plenty of significant changes to the interface as well.) This
situation confuses new users. I suspect it’s also deprived Benny of
a good deal of new-user revenue, as potential users see the low
version number and interpret it to mean that the program has not
undergone the significant updates that it has.
For all this time, I’ve generally been using MailMate’s latest
development build, lagging no more than a couple of weeks behind, and
the issues (bugs) I’ve encountered have been vanishingly few. I can
think of no other software company small or large that is so
conservative in its versioning. Benny’s development versions are
easily as robust as most companies’ beta versions. Benny’s betas
are analogous to official releases. There is no bug-free software
product. Users should feel confident in using more recent builds than
the release level would indicate.
Devyn Osborne wrote:
Are there worthwhile fixes or new features past 1.14 (5937)? Is there
a particularly stable version that people are using?
In MailMate, you can select Help > Release Notes to see a list of all
changes to builds released since February 23, 2011. The significant
changes since the release of build 5937 are too many to list.
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